Bridging religious studies, gender & development and public health to address domestic violence: A novel approach for Ethiopia, Eritrea and the UK

弥合宗教研究和性别

基本信息

批准号：
MR/T043350/1
负责人：
Romina Istratii
金额：
$ 133.81万
依托单位：
School of Oriental and African Studies
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FT043350%2F1
关键词：
Bridging religious studies gender development

项目摘要

This project responds to problematic understandings and alleviation approaches to domestic violence in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In recent decades, these have tended to prioritise Anglo-American epistemology and experience, and have oftentimes neglected or simplistically portrayed the influence of religious belief and spirituality in domestic violence experience. With this project, I aspire to consolidate a decolonial approach that prioritises local worldviews, integrates religio-cultural parameters more substantively in the ecological model of violence and leverages on theology and religious actors resourcefully as appropriate to each context.The project is informed by my decade-long experience in international development practice and unique specialisation in gender, religious & theology studies. It responds to previous gender-sensitive research with religious communities in sub-Saharan Africa and more recent investigations of intimate partner violence (IPV) among the Ethiopian Orthodox in Northern Ethiopia. These have consistently shown the importance of religious idiom in public and private life and the intersection with gendered norms, but especially tensions between theology and folklore understandings, with 'religion' being juxtaposed to 'culture' in intricate ways to preserve or discontinue pernicious behaviour. At the theoretical level, the proposed project aims to build the evidence base around the intersection of religious beliefs, human psychology and intimate partner behaviour, which is a highly under-theorised field dominated by industrialised societies' experience. I am especially interested in exploring how religious idiom may be used to provide psychosocial support to members of religious communities perpetrating or facing abuse. This increased understanding is important for the development of more integrated, religio-culturally sensitive domestic violence services in traditional religious societies, such as Ethiopia and Eritrea, but also in societies with diverse migrant populations, such as the UK.As a pilot, the project will engage the prevalent Amharic- and Tigrigna-speaking Orthodox populations in Aksum, Northern Ethiopia, in Asmara, Eritrea and the surrounding countryside, and three cities in the UK (London, Manchester, Birmingham). In Northern Ethiopia, the project aims to build the preparedness of Orthodox clergy to respond to domestic violence and to sensitise the community of believers by improving literacy in Orthodox theology to reverse folklore understandings of gender and marriage that contribute to IPV. In Eritrea, the project seeks to contextualise domestic violence in religio-cultural worldviews, while building capacity among religious and secular stakeholders to respond better. An overarching objective is to cultivate more nuanced understanding among the various stakeholders in order to reverse simplistic representations that currently hinder integrated, collaborative and multi-sectoral approaches.The study seeks to employ knowledge and experience emanating from the Ethiopian and Eritrean communities to inform debates and approaches in the UK domestic violence sector, which is increasingly called to cater to diverse communities. The project will combine an ethnographic look into the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox population and research with other migrant communities with a country-wide investigation into the UK domestic violence sector. The aim is to establish the degree to which domestic violence providers, migrant community organisations and religious stakeholders from diverse religious communities currently recognise the importance of and engage with religio-cultural parameters to respond to victims and perpetrators. Knowledge exchange and public engagement activities comprise the project's fundamental tool for building bridges among secular and religious stakeholders, who still lack a common platform for mutual understanding and substantive collaboration.

该项目应对低收入和中等收入国家（LMIC）的家庭暴力的有问题的理解和缓解方法。近几十年来，这些倾向于优先考虑盎格鲁美洲认识论和经验，并且经常被忽视或简单地描绘了宗教信仰和灵性对家庭暴力经历中的影响。在这个项目中，我渴望合并一种优先列出地方世界观优先的分离方法，将宗教文化参数更加实质性地整合到暴力和杠杆性模型中，以适应每个环境，以适应于每个环境。 - 在国际发展实践和性别，宗教与神学研究方面的独特专业经验。它回应了以前对撒哈拉以南非洲宗教社区的性别敏感研究，以及北埃塞俄比亚埃塞俄比亚东正教徒对亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）的最新调查。这些始终显示出宗教成语在公共和私人生活中的重要性以及与性别规范的交集，尤其是神学和民间文学理解之间的紧张局势，“宗教”以复杂的方式与“文化”并列，以保存或停止有害行为。在理论层面上，拟议的项目旨在建立围绕宗教信仰，人类心理学和亲密伴侣行为的交集的证据基础，这是一个由工业化社会经验主导的高度不足的领域。我特别有兴趣探索如何使用宗教习语来为宗教社区成员进行虐待或面临虐待的成员提供社会心理支持。这种增强的理解对于在传统宗教社会（例如埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚）的发展更融合，宗教文化敏感的家庭暴力服务以及在拥有多样化移民人口的社会（例如英国）的社会中，这是一个飞行员，该项目很重要。将与普遍的Amharic和Tigrigna说话的正统人口在埃塞俄比亚北部，阿斯马拉，厄立特里亚和周围的乡村以及英国的三个城市（伦敦，曼彻斯特，伯明翰）。在北部埃塞俄比亚，该项目旨在建立正统神职人员的准备，以应对家庭暴力，并通过提高正统神学中的识字能力来扭转对IPV的性别和婚姻的理解，从而使信徒社区敏感。在厄立特里亚，该项目试图在宗教文化世界观中进行背景化家庭暴力，同时在宗教和世俗利益相关者之间建立能力以做出更好的反应。一个总体目标是在各种利益相关者之间培养更细微的理解，以扭转目前阻碍综合，协作和多部门方法的简单陈述。该研究旨在利用从埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚社区赋予的知识和经验来为辩论和辩论和辩论和辩论提供信息英国家庭暴力部门的方法越来越多地迎合各种社区。该项目将对埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚东正教人口以及其他移民社区的研究结合到民族志的外观，以及对英国家庭暴力部门的全国调查。目的是建立家庭暴力提供者，移民社区组织和来自各种宗教社区的宗教利益相关者的程度，目前认识到对受害者和肇事者的反应的重要性并与宗教文化参数相关。知识交流和公共参与活动包括该项目在世俗和宗教利益相关者之间建造桥梁的基本工具，这些工具仍然缺乏共同理解和实质性合作的共同平台。